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Co-Operator Editor Receives International Writing Award

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Co-operatoreditor Laura Rance has placed third in an internat ional writing competition focused on sustainable agriculture, contest organizers announced Sept. 17. The newly launched IFAJYara Award for Reporting on Sustainable Agriculture honoured the top three entries at the recent International Federation of Agr icultural Journalists (IFAJ) congress held here last week. The competition, which drew
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More Community Composting Programs Eyed

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Carman saved $35,000 last year in landfill operation costs by residents putting out their empty jars, tins and plastic tubs for a curbside recycling program. Now the town hopes to achieve more savings doing the same thing with potato peels and apple cores. Earlier this spring free plastic compost pails were delivered to every one
Opinion

Let’s Keep Risks In Perspective

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The nuclear crisis in Japan is likely to have a big impact on the future development of the nuclear industry around the world. In a less direct way, it could also lead to more starving people. The link between the two issues is trust. Nuclear power generation is safe, we’ve been told. Unfortunately, no one
Opinion

Wasting Away

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It’s long been known that Canadians are among the world’s most wasteful of water. We are just as bad, if not worse, with food. Researchers with the George Morris Centre at the University of Guelph recently came out with numbers that by any definition are shocking. A whopping $27 billion in food – more than
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Canadians Throw Out $27 Billion Worth Of Food Annually

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Next time you’re tempted to scrape leftovers into the garbage or toss out unused food in the refrigerator, consider this: Canadians waste about 40 per cent of all food produced in the country. That mountain of edibles is worth $27 billion. That’s only slightly less than Canada’s agricultural and agri-food exports in 2007 and more
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Wal-Mart To Boost Buying From Small And Local Farms

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is planning to double the sales of fresh produce from local farms in its U. S. stores by the end of 2015, part of a strategy to revamp its global produce supply chain. The world’s largest retailer said it would also sell more than $1 billion each year in food from one
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FAO On Disease Alert

The global threat from the animal sickness foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has increased after recent outbreaks in Japan and South Korea, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said April 28. “We … have to ask ourselves if we aren’t facing a possible replay of the disastrous 2001 FMD transcontinental epidemic which spread to South
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Options Abound For Improving Phosphorus Management

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“The underlying problem leading to food waste stems in part from consumer behaviours supported by an economic system built to produce more than we need.” Anew report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development outlines several avenues that could be explored to improve phosphorus management: Another case for local food networks: “Cycling phosphorus exported in
Opinion

Could We Have One Too?

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR “Pickles, no garlic.” That was one of the items on the shopping list, an unusually long one before Christmas when those of us blessed to live in Canada need to worry about having too much food, not too little. Among the brands was one which was almost a dollar cheaper, which
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Winnipeg Planners Put Food On Development Agenda

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Call this planning what to have for dinner – for a very long time to come. The City of Winnipeg is now creating a 25-year blueprint for the city’s future and last week held round table discussions for residents to share their thoughts on food access and availability, food waste handling, urban agriculture and community

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